the missing woman isn't white . |
'I'm not going to do it,' I yelled back at him. 'I'm not going to do it and I'm very disappointed by your call, |
(Democrats) basically think that more taxes and big government is the answer. We don't agree with that, |
[A spokesman for the majority leader said Lott issued the statement because he] wanted to echo the sentiment that is out there, ... high crimes. |
[Against that backdrop, the budget impasse that has kept Congress from ending this year's session continued Sunday. Congress passed another one-day extension of stopgap funding to keep the government running while negotiators tried to narrow their many remaining differences with the White House on issues of education, immigration and tax policy. But Republicans said they were prepared to fight with President Clinton until the eve of the election--] if that's what it takes, ... This Week. |
[And Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont was a] loose cannon, ... He's always had a habit of bartering his vote on crucial legislation for his own pet projects. |
[Appearing on] Fox News Sunday, ... Congress has to at least look at the institutional questions of what happened here. Was it a legal act? ... Why was that amount of force necessary? |
[Asked specifically on ABC's] This Week ... I don't see it happening this year, because I don't believe the president will really honestly address it. |
[But the effectiveness of the response to Katrina appears to diminish the higher you move up the chain of command. By Sept. 7, Lott concluded that FEMA and its Mississippi arm were overwhelmed and understaffed, and he went straight to circumvention mode.] We're just going around them, ... We talk to people on the ground, and they tell us what they need. |
[Daschle, left, calls the resolution] something we can work on ... it is time to quit waffling. |
[Despite his expressed doubts, Lott said he thinks it is important Congress offer its support for U.S. military action should the president think such action is necessary.] Do I have doubts?, ... Yes, but do we have responsibilities? Yes. |
[He promised more oversight hearings in 1998, though he did not specify exactly what the hearings would address.] We intend to make government accountable, ... From the classroom to the courts ... from the clerks to the president's Cabinet ... from the post office to the presidency. |
[In an interview on] Fox News Sunday, ... the truth will set you free. |
[It's a matter of] fundamental fairness, ... Why should working people making $35,000 a year be paying for wealthy people who make $100,000 to get Medicare? |
[Lott denied that the vote was politically inspired, and he denied that Republicans were being isolationists.] We aren't being international cowboys either, ... We are not a rubber stamp for the president on a treaty that we believe is wrong. |